[webkit-dev] Has anybody ported WebKit to a platform other than Windows or Unix?

Robert Nicholson robert.nicholson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 18:34:15 PDT 2008


Webkit was ported to Series 60 platform by the Nokia team.

On Jun 2, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Alexey Ushakov wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
> What about java port of the WebKit? Is it something that you looking  
> for?
>
> Actually, we (at Sun) are working on HTML component for java that is
> based on WebKit engine. If you need more info about this effort,  
> please
> see our blogs:
>
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ixmal/archive/2008/05/ 
> introducing_jwe.html
> http://blogs.sun.com/thejavatutorials/entry/html_component
>
> Best Regards,
> Alexey
>
> Paul Pedriana wrote:
>> I'm wondering if anybody has successfully ported WebKit to a platform
>> other than Windows or Unix. I ask because I am looking into this
>> possibility myself. I've looked at Mozilla and WebKit and at first
>> leaned towards WebKit, as it seems to be easier to grok. But in  
>> looking
>> at the WebKit source it seems that there are hundreds of
>> platform-specific files and a bit of the source apparently isn't
>> available at all (e.g. some stuff from WebKit Support Libraries).  
>> Thus I
>> am becoming more pessimistic about WebKit than when I started.  
>> Mozilla's
>> source appears to be more portable and platform independent.
>>
>> However, perhaps I am missing something and am not seeing the entire
>> picture. If somebody has some experience working with WebKit on a
>> platform other than Windows or Unix, perhaps you can enlighten me  
>> about
>> the realities here.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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